Approaches to the study of podcast as a born digital sound document

Abstract

The golden age of the sound podcast is how the second decade of the 21st century is described. This period is characterized by the proliferation, diversity and wide distribution of this kind of sound materials that are evidence of the creation, thinking and artistic expres-sion of society. The podcast besides being a medium through which audible information is transmitted, is a kind of born digital document whose documentary nature has been studied very little. The purpose of this article is to determine some of the characteristics of podcast as a born digital sound document, and defines the structure and the medium of podcast as a digital object, referring to it as a medium that deals with cur-rent affairs and social interest and points out the risk of loss of this type of documentary.